I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,701
    edited September 2020

    Are we great yet?

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  • trill1943
    trill1943 Member Posts: 1,135
    edited September 2020

    Hahahahahahahahahhahaha!

  • trill1943
    trill1943 Member Posts: 1,135
    edited September 2020

    OMG-- if you can find this--please do! I found it at Rick Wilson's twitter account...I don't know how to save or send vid clips etc.

    IT'S SO WORTH THE SEARCH!

    But only do it if you want to shake so hard from laughing the macaroni and cheese flies out of your mouth....


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  • trill1943
    trill1943 Member Posts: 1,135
    edited September 2020

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  • trill1943
    trill1943 Member Posts: 1,135
    edited September 2020

    YUGE ANNOUNCEMENT: DONALD TRUMP SHOWS HIMSELF AS CAPABLE OF BEING HONEST!

    (Whew! Been waiting four years for that!)


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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770
    edited September 2020

    Just wow !!

  • trill1943
    trill1943 Member Posts: 1,135
    edited September 2020

    I know a lot of folks---me included--would be happy to meet at the Rose Garden and give of ourselves....

    Big dose of personal fertilizer---coming right up!


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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770
    edited September 2020

    Well, well, well -- none of the trumps can get it right.


  • betrayal
    betrayal Member Posts: 3,307
    edited September 2020

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1303516483985735680

    This is the Rex Chapman video Trill cited above. It is too funny.

  • betrayal
    betrayal Member Posts: 3,307
    edited September 2020

    image Jackie Kennedy she is not and this says it all.

    Had a photo I attached but it did not post. Don't know why?

  • trill1943
    trill1943 Member Posts: 1,135
    edited September 2020

    Betrayal, thanks for posting the link! I just watched it again and it's just as funny as the first time!

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    trill1943 Member Posts: 1,135
    edited September 2020

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    trill1943 Member Posts: 1,135
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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770
    edited September 2020

    Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike. -Lydia Maria Child

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770
    edited September 2020

    Trump definitely a piece of something. Maybe a truly crumbling empire. I think he will be reduced to just causing as much disruption and upset as he can over this election. I now am wondering again -- is he really looking at ways to just stay. The vote tally will indeed take some time and give him some reason to try and hang around. In the end -- too many people do not want him a second time around and it is certainly high in the realm of possibility that he will lose. He is so heavy in personal debt ( who would loan him a dime ) I doubt there is money to bail himself out. Besides, he is stingy to the nth. degree. Well, some day, some way chickens do come home to roost. As per the Cohen book -- Trump never wanted the presidency -- just the huge and mainly free publicity.

    That old adage, be careful what you wish for. All of the publicity makes for a lot of "looking" into your affairs. Brings to mind one more adage -- if you want to dance you have to pay the fiddler. Time for Trump to pay up.

  • betrayal
    betrayal Member Posts: 3,307
    edited September 2020

    image.pngWorked this time.

  • pupmom
    pupmom Member Posts: 1,032
    edited September 2020

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    pupmom Member Posts: 1,032
    edited September 2020
  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,701
    edited September 2020

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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770
    edited September 2020

    Things happen fast here. I went to Sandoval to do my little job which I love and came back to hearing on the tv something about Woodward and discussions with Trump that are out in a book by Woodward. I knew there were some more books coming out and likely this week. Somehow I never got that one would be from Woodward.

    Woodward is someone I totally trust, but I think any of us who went through Nixon likely do. Sounds like Trump is just going to have even more trouble. Don't know how much will change from his current issue of military losers etc. because that one could hang around for some time too, but he is just not doing well. A given in many ways since we know for sure he never intended to be president and believe me he is far from it, and have done nothing for anyone but himself and cronies and none too cleverly. Were it not for those who REALLY wish to run things -- the man would still be in the O Ofc. wondering where the light switches were. What a horrible joke on everyone.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770
    edited September 2020

    September 9, 2020

    If you missed the previous newsletter, you can read it here.

    Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, testifies at the House hearings preceding the president's impeachment.Andrew Harnik/Associated Press

    By Frank Bruni

    Opinion Columnist

    There have been 45 presidents over the 244 years of these United States, and only two before Donald Trump had been impeached. That's how rare impeachment is. That's how grave.

    So you might think that Trump's impeachment would come up with some regularity in Joe Biden's remarks or in other prominent Democrats' attacks on Trump. You might expect it to be one of the sharpest, surest arrows in their quivers.

    Nope. Democrats steered clear of it over the four nights of their convention last month. They continue to do so, as if it never happened. But it did. It most definitely did. It just happened to a president with a singular and disturbing inoculation from its import, at a time when that import was likely to be lost.

    In America we are now so polarized, so entrenched in our adversarial political camps, that any battle between Republicans and Democrats is seen primarily as a paroxysm of partisanship. Most Americans don't sift through the back and forth to look for right and wrong. They just side with their team, following its leaders and parroting the assigned talking points. That's the easiest, quickest response. It's reflexive at this point.

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    Most Trump-devoted, Trump-inclined and Trump-agnostic Americans (there are a few) didn't register impeachment as a reason to re-evaluate and potentially renounce Trump. It was just a squabble louder, longer and thus more annoying than all the others. It was a time suck, lousy with tedium. In fact, its length, its formality and the Senate trial at its climax made it seem only more partisan to some Americans.

    And then the Senate — or, rather, Senate Republicans, minus Mitt Romney — let Trump off. That was indeed pure partisanship talking, but it nonetheless reduced all that preceded it to a whole lot of sound and fury signifying the status quo.

    More than half a year later, Democrats aren't milking impeachment because they've concluded — rightly, I think — that there's minimal milk to be had. Impeachment might rally the Democratic faithful, who can be rallied in plenty of other ways. But for everybody else, it's just a bad memory or an abstraction.

    There are additional reasons for its remarkable fade. Trump was impeached for abusing the office of the presidency to seek a political favor from Ukraine, and he didn't pick that nation at random: He picked it because Biden's son, Hunter, had been on the board of a Ukrainian company, and Trump was determined to cast that arrangement as corrupt. So to bring up impeachment is to open the door to more trashing of the Biden family by Trump and his allies. That's not optimal for Biden.

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    Impeachment has also faded because, astonishingly, a bigger story — the coronavirus pandemic — came along, and because it gave Biden and Democrats an even more damning case against Trump. Impeachment became superfluous, a piddling condiment in a cupboard jammed with heartier fare.

    That brings me to Trump's disturbing inoculation, which, I think, will be regarded decades from now as the most consequential aspect of his political identity. Way back in February 2016, when he was still chasing (and about to catch) the Republican presidential nomination, I wrote a column about his reinventions of history that also included this observation:

    His greatest trick, though, isn't to toy with memory but to overwhelm it, rendering insults and provocations at such a hectic pace that the new ones eclipse and then expunge the old ones. It's as if the DVR of the electorate and the media can store only so many episodes before it starts erasing earlier indignities.

    His flamboyant present overwrites his distressing past. It's the eternal sunshine of the spotless Trump.

    Throughout his presidency I've returned to that theme, which many, many other journalists and commentators have also explored. Trump's transgressions come in such a volume and at such a velocity that they blur. You can't properly see the individual trees in a forest this lush with malfeasance, this dark with contempt.

    And that holds true even for impeachment. It's a redwood. Still it's obscured.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770
    edited September 2020

    It is a little hard to imagine since in many ways we have come so far, to wonder how people will really see this four yr. period in the history of elected presidents. Mind you, I am not really calling Trump one because to me he never was -- but still we think of all the advances we have made thru our history and yet this total mental case sought and actually attained ( though their was massive Russian interference to make it happen ) the highest and most important office we have.


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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770
    edited September 2020

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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770
    edited September 2020

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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770
    edited September 2020

    Image may contain: 1 person, text that says 'Jeff Tiedrich @itsJeffTiedrich imagine being a Trump supporter and having to pretend that this unrelenting firehose of crybaby batshit fucknuttery is not just perfectly normal, but some exemplary fucking peak of alpha masculinity'

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770
    edited September 2020

    I think I'm going to blame Trump. Most people who know me know that I generally am not one much for certain words. The F bombs in other words. I have looked so often at memes like the above and shook my head yes. Sigh !!! Most definitely he is a bad influence.

  • wren44
    wren44 Member Posts: 7,932
    edited September 2020

    I just worry that a cornered narcissisis is actually very dangerous. I tell you we need to offer him some bait to make him want to leave. A reality show in Russia filmed at his hotel or something. He would, of course, be the star.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770
    edited September 2020

    So they are already trying to clean things up. The McEnany just added her lie to the originals from Trump. Obviously they are not playing to people with brain cells. Just un-believable to get up on national tv with their is all KINDS of taped proof and say Trump didn't say something. Talk about prostituting yourself. First class hypocrite.


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    And yes, he doesn't want to create a panic, he wants to create a re-election.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770
    edited September 2020

    Image may contain: text that says 'TO: Donald Trump, We inform you that your services are no longer needed at the White House. We disagreed strongly with everything you've done and we do not thank you for your service. We ask for your resignation. Signed, America'

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 39,770
    edited September 2020

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